Meryl Comer's husband vanished more than a decade ago. Yet she has remained at his side, caring for him night and day as he drifted into the darkness of Alzheimer's disease. The story of how Comer, an Emmy Award-winning former broadcast journalist who lives in Kensington, Md.,...
Read MoreAlzheimer’s disease affects a reported 36 million people worldwide. But Meryl Comer had never heard of it when her husband was diagnosed with early-onset Alzheimer’s at age 58. The award-winning journalist gave up her television career to take care of him at home -- for...
Read MoreWashington, DC - Slow Dancing With a Stranger: Lost and Found in the Age of Alzheimer's (release date on September 2nd by HarperOne) is a poignant and deeply personal account of Meryl Comer's daily realities and overwhelming responsibilities as a full-time caretaker for her husband,...
Read MoreThere are any number of good "dementia memoirs" at this point. Slow Dancing with a Stranger is a sometimes poignant often startling addition to the collection. What sets it apart is its ambition to engage readers in a vitally necessary policy discussion over what is...
Read MoreWhat is it like to care for a person with dementia? For most people, it can be hard to imagine the daily struggle, the exhaustion, the emotional pain. And in truth, recent portrayals of Alzheimer's in books, newsprint, and advocacy pleas have shied away from...
Read MoreGeoffrey Beene Foundation Alzheimer's Initiative CEO Comer offers an unvarnished account of her experience as her husband's caretaker after he was diagnosed with Alzheimer's. The author has testified before Congress, and she is a founding member of USAgainstAlzheimer's, a co-founder of Women Against Alzheimer's Network and...
Read MoreMeryl Comer sat on stage at the BIO International Convention in San Diego last month between two prominent scientists: Francis S. Collins, director of the National Institutes of Health, and Jan M. Lundberg, head of R&D at Eli Lilly & Co. The three were on...
Read MoreThe science that informs medicine -- including the prevention, diagnosis and treatment of disease -- routinely fails to consider the critical impact of sex and gender. These omissions exist at the same time diseases such as lung cancer, heart disease, Alzheimer's Disease and depression profoundly...
Read MoreAlzheimer's disease accounts for many more deaths than we've realized, a new study concludes, making it nearly as lethal as the nation's two biggest killers, heart disease and cancer. Death certificates record immediate cause of death, but often miss the underlying cause, which is why Alzheimer's...
Read MoreC. Simone FIshburn, February 27, 2014, SciBX - Science-Business eXchange Although small-and medium-sized biotechs are absent from the NIH's new Accelerated Medicines Partnership with industry and not-for-profit organizations, consortium leaders expect that making results publicly available on their search for new targets and biomarkers in four...
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